Provision of reportsU.K.
47.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a contracting authority—
(a)is not a Minister of the Crown or a government department, and
(b)is required in accordance with these Regulations to send a report to the Cabinet Office or the Ministry of Defence,
it shall instead send the report to the Minister responsible for that contracting authority and that Minister shall be responsible for sending the report to the Cabinet Office.
(2) Where a contracting authority is a Scottish public authority it must send the report to the Scottish Ministers, and the Scottish Ministers are responsible for sending the report to the Cabinet Office.
(3) The Minister responsible for a contracting authority shall be the Minister of the Crown whose areas of responsibility are most closely connected with the functions of the contracting authority.
(4) Any questions as to which Minister of the Crown's areas of responsibility are most closely connected with the functions of a contracting authority in accordance with paragraph (3) shall be determined by the Cabinet Office whose determination is final.
(5) The requirement on a contracting authority to send any report in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) to the Minister of the Crown responsible for that contracting authority shall be enforceable, on the application of the Minister responsible to the High Court or the Court of Session by specific implement, by mandatory order.
(6) In the application of this regulation to Northern Ireland references to the Minister shall include references to the head of a Northern Ireland department.
(7) In this regulation, “Scottish public authority” has the same meaning as in section 126(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 M1.
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